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I'm not a big recruiting guy, so can someone who is please post a synopsis of the 2003 recruiting class from the ratings when they entered school, and maybe how the more prominent players (top 25?) panned out? They did a piece on Ohio State's group in the Cleveland paper this week and it was fascinating how many of the heralded recruits (Marcel Frost, Lou Irrizary, a couple others I can't recall off the top of my head) were complete failures.

Ernie Sims was #1 and Reggie Bush was #2.

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Just change the year to 2003.

Thanks man!

Just look at the guys on that list...
2003 Rank Pos Ht/Wt Schools
1 Ernie Sims
Tallahassee (FL) North Florida Christian LB 6-0/220 Florida State
2 Reggie Bush
San Diego (CA) Helix RB 6-0/180 Southern Cal
3 Whitney Lewis
Ventura (CA) St. Bonaventure ATH 6-1/215 Southern Cal
4 Andre Caldwell
Tampa (FL) Jefferson WR 6-2/180 Florida
5 Kyle Wright
Danville (CA) Monte Vista QB 6-4/200 Miami-FL
6 Prescott Burgess
Warren (OH) Harding DB 6-3/210 Michigan
7 Tony Hills Jr.
Alief (TX) Elsik TE 6-6/260 Texas
8 Jorrie Adams
Jasper (TX) OL 6-7/275 Texas A&M
9 Paul Oliver
Kennesaw (GA) Harrison High School DB 6-0/185 Georgia
10 Greg Olsen
Wayne Hills (NJ) TE 6-6/235 Miami-FL
11 Martin O'Donnell
Downers Grove (IL) Downers Grove South OL 6-5/290 Illinois
12 Dee Webb
Jacksonville (FL) Ed White DB 6-0/185 Florida
13 Wesley JeffersonBrandywine (MD) Gwynn Park LB 6-2/230 Maryland
14 LaMarr Woodley
Saginaw (MI) Saginaw High School LB 6-3/245 Michigan
15 Nathaniel Robinson
Irvington (NJ) DT 6-4/319 Rutgers
16 Joe Cohen
Palm Bay (FL) DE 6-2/240 Florida
17 Chad Jackson
Hoover (AL) WR 6-1/200 Florida
18 Ofa Mohetau
Euless (TX) Trinity School OL 6-3/335 Brigham Young
19 Kregg Lumpkin
Stone Mountain (GA) Stephenson High School RB 6-0/190 Georgia
20 Robert Meachem
Tulsa (OK) Booker T. Washington

The guys in bold had what I consider very good, difference-making college careers.

The guys in italics are guys I'd be hard-pressed to say anything about because most of them never did much of anything. The other guys had varying degrees of impact and success--solid collegians.

Just doing a quick count on that, recruiting ratings (at least this one) is less a portend of success than the NFL draft by a pretty wide margin. If you keep going down in groups of 10 it works out about the same--3-4 really good players, 2-3 guys who had okay careers, and 3-4 guys most people never heard from again.

Whitney Lewis fell off so bad. That guy was such a manbeast playing in SoCal, but he just couldn't keep it together enough to get on the field